Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for December 30, 2022
Transcript:
suggested summer reading dude: in "ulysses", the new oprah's book club selection, author james joyce uses innovative narrative techniques to tell the story of leopold bloom. bloom has just 24 hours to find & defuse the bomb hidden somewhere in dublin by the elusive criminal mastermind & illegal organ dealer known only as - the brain! thrill as bloom, his beautiful wife, molly, and their hip sidekick, steve, track down the brain in a fast-paced pub crawl that culminates in a pulse-pound-ing fight in an abandoned distillery! lady: i have to read "silas marner," "last of the mohicans," "the pearl," "a separate peace" and "the old man and the sea" for my intro-duction to hatefully dull literature class. screenplay in embryo man: i'm reading this, but i can't really recommend it. great big jumbo giant pop-up book baby: this was good until the author dragged the rhomboid in. then it just fell apart.
ElwoodP almost 2 years ago
Outstanding humor!!
jmcenanly almost 2 years ago
I remember reading “A Separate Peace” some time ago. The character “Phineas” struck me as being somewhat manic.
k8zhd almost 2 years ago
The “Hatefully Dull Literature” class has always been an evocative fave of mine!
Sisyphos almost 2 years ago
Looks like somebody couldn’t make it all the way through Joyce’s Ulysses and instead faked this epitome….
jmolay161 almost 2 years ago
That pop-up book will have to do for the current literature-starved, bury-your-head-in-the-phone generation—-plus a well-deserved wakeup call for them—-Pop!